#1,036 "The Sound of Waves" by Yukio Mishima
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“On the sun-drenched island of Utajima, young fisherman Shinji returns home from the sea to find his quiet life transformed by the arrival of Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the island’s wealthiest man. Their attraction is immediate, but in a small tradition-bound community, love is never truly private.”
The preceding paragraph, we think, is a decent, concise back-of-the-book explanation of what Yukio Mishima’s sixth novel is about. That description doesn’t mention, though, that it is written by a closeted gay man who once attempted a coup against the Japanese military, an…
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